Articles - Application

During New Attitude our editor, Ricky Alcantar, sat down with three singles pastors we like--Isaac Hydoski, Jon Smith, and Joseph Stigora--to talk about how to apply what we learned at the Na 08 conference.

In this interview the pastors cover how to make powerful moments you experienced at a conference last, how to not be overwhelmed in application, and how to make weighty talks (like Mohler’s and Dever’s) count in real life.

At the New Attitude 2008 conference we sat down with speaker Al Mohler for a few minutes and asked him how he reads the Bible and what principles he’d encourage others to follow as they read. Dr. Mohler talked to us about why the Bible is like coffee, why getting the big picture matters, and how to have a good devotional time reading about the size of the laver.

At the New Attitude 2008 conference we sat down with speaker Mark Dever for a few minutes and interviewed him about how he reads the Bible and what he’s learned about reading the Bible over the years. Mark talked to us about how he decides what to read each week, how to get through an uninspiring devotional day (or week), and how he’d use dead people to encourage people to…

I don’t like check-ups.

I dread going back to the optometrist every year just to be told I�m more blind than last year. I dread getting those little postcards in the mail that say �It�s time for your yearly dental appointment!� (Especially when the postcard has a smiling cartoon kid in headgear. How does that encourage people?) I don�t want to �waste� time on check-ups. And I�m afraid…

So I’m sitting here sifting through old emails about the 07 conference. To say that God blew away our expectations is the understatement of a lifetime. Wasn’t God so good to us to meet us in worship and to instruct us from his word?

Now we get to enjoy it even more by stewarding the teaching we received. Let’s be doers of the word. So how are we…

This week we sat down with Eric’s fellow pastors Isaac Hydoski and Jon Smith to talk about how to prepare our hearts for the conference. We met at Jon’s house over coffee and laptops and a Little Tike toy.

Na: How do you approach going to New Attitude? How do you try to get the most out of your time there?

Isaac: Well, here’s one thing…